If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
RAMAKRISHNABecause of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
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One should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
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He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.
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